This Is Why China Uncensored Is So Important

We have got a serious problem and I need your help to solve it. Welcome to China uncensored. I'm Chris Chapel. You know, every day it seems like the US and China are inching closer and closer to war. Or for my viewers outside the US, centimetering closer to war. If it's not a virus of totally unknown origin, it's shots fired in the ongoing US China trade war or the risk of actual shots fired over Taiwan. I've been warning about the Chinese Communist Party for years, even before any of this ever happened. And it's not that I'm some kind of prophet. The writing was on the wall. If you only looked, anyone with half a brain and working eyeholes could have said, "Hey, what's that writing over there on the wall?" The problem is, for years, you have been lied to about China. The message you've been getting from mainstream media and politicians is that China is rising and we should work together for the betterment of all. They had the same sales pitch as a jewelry store that only sells diamond rings. Engagement. Engagement. Engagement. If we do right by China, they'll do right by us. But this is dangerous. The CCP is a bully. And bullies don't back down if you're nice to them. It's not like they say, "Hey, he just gave me his lunch money without me asking. Maybe I should stop taking all his cash now because it would be rude to ask for more." To the CCP, engagement is the US projecting weakness, which makes war more likely, not less likely. But that's not the message we've been given. For example, here's a recent op-ed in the New York Times, the most influential and prestigious newspaper in America. It argues that the CCP is not a threat and the current US China policy is dangerously misguided. For evidence for this claim, it cites this academic paper published in the MIT Press. It's called What Does China Want? It states, "China is a status quo power concerned with regime stability and it remains more inwardly focused than externally oriented. China does not pose the type of military threat that the conventional wisdom claims it does." How did the authors come to that conclusion? Clearly not by having half a brain or working eyeholes. They took the word of Chinese state-run media. Let me lay this out again for you because it's insane. The Chinese Communist Party instructs its party mouthpieces to say the CCP isn't a threat. Researchers take them at their word and then regurgitate that message in their paper, which gets published by the MIT press. And then that paper gets cited in a New York Times op ed which some of the most influential people in the United States will read and make China policy based on. This is the worst game of telephone of all time. And it's the only time you'd actually wish they'd changed the message along the way. This is just bonkers. I wish those people would have watched China Uncensored because then I'd tell them that's absolute bunk. The CCP is a militaristic expansionist ethnostate that's constantly threatening all of its neighbors and the US, committing genocide and using rape as a form of torture. Seriously, read the giant writing on the wall, people. But if you thought it was just the New York Times that can't seem to get it right when it comes to the CCP, here's another case of a misleading series of citations giving you, the American people, a very different view of what's happening with China. Last week, following a phone call between President Trump and Xi Jinping, the Wall Street Journal released this report saying after the call, Trump asked Japan to tone it down on their defense of Taiwan. Clearly, this is a factual statement I'm not about to debunk 23 seconds from now. The new Prime Minister, Sinitaki, said that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a threat to Japan's survival. And although she didn't say this explicitly, that means Japan would have to respond militarily if the CCP invaded Taiwan. So clearly, if Trump asked Takahi to lower the volume on Taiwan, Trump is kissing up to Xi Jinping, the US will abandon Taiwan, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria. But hold on, what is that claim based on? thirdhand sources like people briefed on the matter. Yep. So, it's yet another game of telephone. Didn't realize elementary school games were such a core component of journalism school. Meanwhile, the only on there government source quoted by name. The Japanese prime minister's spokeswoman flatly denies that Trump told Takahi that. The article included that quote, but pretty much ignored it in favor of lots of analysis based on the idea that Trump is reprimanding Japan because of what China wants. Because this is an exclusive report from the Wall Street Journal, lots of other media copied the story, citing the Wall Street Journal. But it's actually still all coming from the same anonymous third-hand sources. Meanwhile, another Japanese government official denied the Wall Street Journal report. Now, hey, I wasn't on the call. I don't know what was said. And you know what? Neither does the Wall Street Journal. At best, they know the interpretations of people who were also not on the call, but were told about what was said on the call. It's literally a game of he said, she said. So, let's look at what we know happened after the call. The US and Japan began moving troops and missiles onto Yonauni Island, a Japanese island that's just 70 miles from Taiwan. That presents us with two possibilities. You tell me which you think is more likely. Possibility one, Trump told Takichi to tone it down. And yet she not only ignored Trump, she somehow convinced him to take the incredibly provocative move of arming a Japanese island next to Taiwan. Or possibility two, the Wall Street Journal sources were wrong. I'll let you decide, but it'll be helpful to remember the concept of AAM's razor, which states, "Do you think we're idiots?" Wall Street Journal. Shelley coined a really good term for this in one of our recent Substack newsletters. She called it the Trump distortion field. The media's obsession with painting Trump in a bad light makes it hard to see what's actually going on. Here's another example. This time from the Washington Post back from Trump's first term. Trump says he might veto legislation that aims to protect human rights in Hong Kong because the bill could affect China trade talks. That legislation was in response to the massive protests in Hong Kong back in 2019, which we were there for. Really brought a tear to my eye, mostly from all the tear gas. The legislation passed Congress almost unanimously. So, when I first saw the headline to that Washington Post article, I was furious. How could Trump do that? And then I actually read the article. The headline reads, "Trump says he's going to veto it." But the first sentence of the article changes it to, "President Trump suggested." And if you read the actual quote from Trump, he doesn't even mention a veto. He just said some stuff about how he hopes Hong Kong and she can work it out. I'm honestly not sure how the Washington Post got the idea that Trump was saying he would veto the bill from this. The rest of the Washington Post article was a bunch of people saying how terrible it was for Trump to cave to China, except for one quote from Marco Rubio, who said his understanding was that Trump was going to sign the bill into law. And then 5 days later, Trump signed the bill into law. But that didn't stop a ton of media outlets from repeating the Washington Post's original baseless claim all week. I had activists I knew in Hong Kong contacting me in a panic because of it. And again, it was all based on nothing. Yet that nothing inched millions towards an anxiety attack or since they were in Hong Kong, sentimented them towards it. I obviously strive for something better at China Uncensored. Unlike a lot of mainstream media, I tell you the truth about China and the Chinese Communist Party as best I can every single day. Unfortunately, we don't have the resources or corporate funding like these major media outlets, and we are being financially squeezed very tight these days. YouTube has been demonetizing and shadowbanning us. It's gotten really bad again these past two months. Patreon changed their terms, and potential sponsors keep getting scared away because they don't want to get kicked out of the China market. Every month, we just barely are managing to cover the costs of making the show. I'm talking staff, electricity, equipment, and so on. That's why I created my own website, chinaunensored.tv. It's completely independent from outside pressure or censorship. 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